Burning of Marietta

In 1864. when Sherman ordered his men to burn down Marietta I don't think he thought it would be reason to have a big reenactiment and party of that event over 150 years later.  

Marietta Sight Seeing Trolley

Several years ago we took the tour bus around Marietta to view historical sites.  They have a nice promoting-Marietta enterprise going.  Not only do they do the tour about three or four days a week but they also have a Marietta Haunt Tour one night a week (seasonal), and a bike service.  Also a bike cab service… a bicyclist  pulling a  two seater cart.   More about on some other post maybe.

The History Tour was interesting.  I had to correct the driver/docent a couple of times.  One time after my corrections the tour guide said described something he was pointing out slowly, keeping his eyes on me, giving me the opportunity to correct him.

Which reminds me, I heard something funny the other day on TV said my a comedian.  He said he heard they might close the Metropolitan Art Museum because of whatever reason and added, “Can you imagine that many docents let loose in the wilds of Manhattan?”   I thought it was funny anyway.

Big Chicken's Little Chickens

The Big Chickens replicas with others were scattered around Glover Park for a while.  What I like about the is their accurate looking historical scene on each one.

Chief Dan Flynn

Once, a few years ago, I went on a downtown walking tour of Marietta's Civil War Hospitals with Civil War researcher and author Brad Quinlin acting as docent..  On the tour was Dan Flynn, Chief of the Marietta Police.  I told him my father was Chief in the 1950s and he seemed glad to see me.  He told me he was the Chief in Savannah and after that maybe Miami.  

Marietta Police Chief Dan Flynn

A couple years later I saw him and his police entourage at Our Daily Bread luncheon.  I spoke to him but he did not immediately remember me.  I had to relive our Civil War tour and my relation to the Marietta Police, then he remembered.

Can you blame him?   If it makes it better, I didn't recognize him either, without his hat.

The Hunt House, Never More

This is the Hunt House.  Or was the Hunt House.  The house burned down years ago. The Hunt House was on Butler Street.  But even that has changed, the same land is now on Atlanta Street.  The city has plowed through Powers Barber Shop and paved it which physically extended Atlanta Street.

In the Civil War this house served as a hospital.  When Mary Phagan was murdered her grandfather lived in it.  About 15 or so years after Mary Phagan’s grandparents lived there Anna’s mother Marie lived there as a child.  Then, in the 1940s on up for a while the Hunt family of Hunt Ice Cream lived there.  Then, we used to play touch football on the side lawn. (don’t ask how good of a player I was).

Now, poof!  It is gone!